Source #1: TGM Magazine The Italian game magazine had an expansion preview and this is what was written:
New territory: Outland.
New instance: Karazhan, a 5-man instance in Deadwind Pass.
Level cap raised to lvl 70, just as written on the cover.
New profession: Jewelcrafting, gives ability to craft gems, to be used on armor and weapons, similar to enchanting.
Two new races:
Blood Elves for the Horde (yes, I'm sorry, the screens are true). Alliance race still unknown.
Atmospheric effects:
Rain and snow added to the world.
The Expansion Set is scheduled to be released due May 2006.
Thanks to silkfire on the forums for the information. TGM removed their cover image and all information from what we could tell a day or two after it had been published on their online website.
I have more info!!! It's quite trustable.
Blood Elves will have a new starting zone north of Eastern Plaguelands and a new dungeon will be included.
The racial trait of the Blood Elves will be a "Mana Tap" to slowly leech the mana of the target (it will be applicable more than once like the Sunder Armor) and that will then directly load the second trait: "Arcane Torment (or Torrent)" which will work like an area silence.
Battlegrounds shared between servers.
No hero classes.
Alliance arce will NOT be showcased at BlizzCon.
Outland will come, Illidan as well.
Even more news
The Blood Elves will be Mages, Warlocks and Warriors but it's undecided if either hunters or rogues.
Their starting zone will be Quel'Thalas (what is left), north of the Eastern Plaguelands and with a three-zones valley inbetween (Eversong Woods with the capital Silvermoon, Ghostland and a troll themed zone called Zul'Aman).
About the live content, the opening of Silithus will be introduced by a live event that will require the collaboration of everyone and that will only happen once for each server. Behind the gates there will be a open zone tailored for 20 players (defined by Blizzard "casual hardcore" with a temple at the center with an instance that will be the biggest to date (two-three times Molten Core). The players will also get access to special mounts (insects) that will be only usable in the dungeon.
The Outlands will be divided into differently themed regions (like the rock valleys of the Hellfire Peninsula and the luxuriant forests of Zanga Marsh, part of what is left of Dreanor). While within Shadowmoon Valley there will be the Black Temple with the Illidian as boss.
The flying mount will be for level 70 players and after an epic quest chain. But only usable in the Outlands (floating isles).
No new engine changes or features. The Blood Elves models seem to use 20% more polygons. Blizzard is also experimenting with Specular Environmental Mapping.
The atmospherical effects should arrive soon as a live patch.
Also, by the time the expansion is out, the Battlegrounds should be finally linked between the servers to kill the queues.
Level Cap
The level cap will be raised to
level 70. This was first seen on a magazine cover from
TGM, which was only available for viewing for about 48 hours before the site removed the headline and replaced it with the new Brother in Arms headline.
New Races
So far all speculation points to the
Blood Elves as the
new Horde race. The
new Alliance race does not have any factual basis so far, the only clear guesses we can make are the
Panderan, which would be very unlikely in our standing opinion.
Over at
1UP there was a post on someones blog describing how he has played the expansion, and has seen "everything". The new Alliance race was not disclosed but he was able to play as the new Horde race and there was
a lot of new content in the expansion. As well as there being an
upcoming painting of the new Horde race. Maybe this will be shown off at Blizzcon.
So, as soon as Blizzard gives me the okay, I will replace my desktop picture with our December cover, which pictures an awesome painting from one of the Blizzard artist's of the new Horde race. I hate being a tease (well, okay, it's a little fun), but I just can't tell ya yet. But soon!
This goes into a little bit of detail, but there is "open space" in the games data files, which store the class/race information. Leaving open two slots for new races, one for Alliance and one for Horde. This could once again, point to preparation for new races in the Expansion.
Sent in by one of our users, Swift, it seems there is a bit more speculation that the Alliance race could very well be Panderan.
There are 3 children in Stormwind that i ran into the other day, having a conversation about the Panderan. I did not catch it all (ran off too fast) but it at least started with 1 boy saying there was rumor that one had been sighted, then another of the boys replies that they are just a myth/rumor.
It may be nothing, but it also may be a subtle hint regarding the new alliance race. Once the servers come back up, i will try and find the boys again and screenshot the entire conversation.
Follow-up
Ok. These 3 kids were found on a pier inbetween the dwarvern district and garden district in Stormwind city, doing a spot of fishing. As you can see from the screenshot, Justin seems to be full of tall stories, Bradon doesnt seem to be able to believe them, and Roman is entirely uninterested in them.
The last 'tall' story has Justin claiming that people have seen Panderons.
This might just be something Blizzard threw in as a sort of joke (just like one of the previous comments from justin of "There is no spoon"), or it may be something more. Guess we wont really know until Blizzard make an announcement
Update:
This seems to be legitment, at least for Blood Elves as we have been required to pull all related images which were submitted to the site.
Blizzcon Releases
Blizzard announced on the official forums recently that
a new starting area will be showcased at Blizzcon, which may also mean that they'll give much more information as well as possibly a demo of what's to come in the expansion.
The new starting area may not specifically be the new races starting area, but speculation points to the Blood Elves starting location. We may not know anything else until Blizzcon arrives.
Dark Portal
It is
rumored that the
dark portal will open in the expansion. Thus giving way to the new races starting locations, as well as new zones and instances. This would most likely be done from a World Event right before the release of the expansion in which players would participate in events in-game to help open the Dark Portal.
Zitat von Kiwihaendler 
Naja... Totprügeln und dann... 
, also muss Blizzard so etwas ähnliches machen.
Loose Change 9/11 Gogglen und Ansehen 
Ich bin eine Signatur
) eigentlich von dem Volk her, am besten für die Klasse geeignet ist. Aber ich wollte mal von Unten sehen was das Add-On so alles bietet. Und wenn möglich nicht mit dem selben Volk (auch wenn ich wieder Zwerge genommen hätte, wären die Draenei nicht so verdammt verlockend).
